qtd. in
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
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Giles Jacob
Standard Name: Jacob, Giles
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Susanna Centlivre | Giles Jacob
and John Mottley
respectively wrote that SC
was married or something like it |
| Literary responses | Martha Fowke | Giles Jacob
praised MF
in The Poetical Register, 1719-20, and in Human Happiness, A Poem, 1721. In The Poetical Register he claimed that her genius was as much a national asset to Britain... |
| Literary responses | Catharine Trotter | Anne Kelley
traces in detail successive judgements passed on Trotter (later Cockburn) by her contemporaries and by the later eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002. 15-45 |
| Literary responses | Delarivier Manley | A series of various keys attached to later editions fed curiosity about the originals of DM
's portraits, without actually giving very much away. Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, 1991, p. v - xxviii. xv |
| Occupation | Jane Wiseman | A Mrs Wiseman who appeared on stage in London around 1700, playing the role of Roxolana in Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery
's The Tragedy of Mustapha, may have been the future playwright. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993. 16: 195 |
| Textual Production | Martha Fowke | It has recently been suggested among scholars that MF
is the hitherto unidentified author of another and larger group of poems in the Barbados Gazette. Bill Overton
thinks it possible, Phyllis Guskin
thinks it... |
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Texts
Jacob, Giles. The Poetical Register. E. Curll, 1720, 2 vols.